Ban plastics now PAGING all sanggunian bodies in Pangasinan. Climate change is upon us and it’s bad enough that our local governments have not established nor adopted mitigating measures to minimize its deathly impact on communities. Worse, our local governments continue to maintain open dumpsites in the province. Neither do…
Restore Oplan Tokhang here By Ermin Garcia Jr. IT is encouraging to see P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, acting PNP provincial director, moving deliberately and surely on the war on drugs in Pangasinan. His surprise order for PNP personnel from the town to the provincial level to take drug tests was in…
Punchline
Treating a thin senior citizen badly By Gonzalo Duque SINCE I lost weight last year, I thought all the time that it is an advantage to have conquered the scales and be seen as young and blooming again, but getting thinner also has its own disadvantages. This was my experience…
Playing with Fire
Fake as the ‘branded’ in Greenhills By Al S. Mendoza THIEVERY in government happens because of crooks it endlessly harbors. Crooks come in many forms. They are heads of agencies or any branch of government. They are government employees from the top down to the rank-and-file. They know the law…
General Admission
The past and the volatile current By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – Great Gatsby SOME try to recapture the past especially if it brings back memories of love, especially love that was interrupted in between. Some want…
G Spot
Warriors refuse to die in Game 5 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “ALL points are important to me from the first to the last even though I’m losing, I’m never going to let go,” said half-Filipina, half-Ecuadorian Leylah Annie Fernandez after winning the French Open junior girls championship in Paris…
Sports Eye
By: Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in a page on www.moralstories.org. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. Appreciation of Hard WorkAuthor Unknown ONE young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the first interview,…
Learnings in Life
Guv Pogi’s order to Maranan By Leonardo Micua IN a talk to newsmen after the flag-raising ceremony last June 3 at the Capitol Plaza, Gov. Amado ‘Pogi’ Espino said his first marching order to new police provincial director P/Col. Redrico Maranan in their very first informal meeting a week before: “Establish order”. Col….